Sunday, September 20, 2015

This is the latest experiment with designing quilts by machine piecing the rhomboid patches of a Penrose tiling then English paper piecing the machine pieced rhombs. My previous experiments with this resulted in the Mylchreest star quilt and the Penrose tile Christmas tree skirt.

I started with this tiling:

The Green Square indicates the final quilt boundary.

Then I Reduce each rhombus three levels:

After removing the superfluous rhombi I end up with this final layout:

I machine piece some of the fat rhombi half black/half green. Then I lay them out with the thin black rhombi so that they create the outline star effect. I also machine piece half black/half white fat rhombi and lay them out like this:

After it's completely laid out, squared up, and bordered, it looks like this: